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you; howbeit for that time the said Englis … you; howbeit for that time the said English vessell[?s] got from<br />
them and going further up the River, they came to the mouth of another<br />
River that went up to the towne of the duke of Oldenburghs residence<br />
in which river they entred and haled up as farr as they could and as long as they had<br />
water enough, and still they were persued by the danes, and when the<br />
English could carry their vessells now further, but were in danger to be a<br />
prey to the danes who sought to take them, and the said Generall of the<br />
danish fleete comming by land to them, and demanding the delivery up of<br />
their vessells and they denying it, saying they could not doe it without their<br />
Captaines order the said Generall said hee had foure hundred men at [?hount]<br />
and would fetch them and either take or fire them, and soe departed to fetch<br />
them, of which this deponent and the other English aboard<br />
informing their said Captaine, who was againe at libertia, hee<br />
ordered them rather than to be taken by the danes to blow the vesell up,<br />
and this blowing up was on the seaventh day of July last<br />
or thereabouts, And before such blowing up, the said Captaine Welch<br />
accompanied with this deponent and others of his company<br />
went to the duke of Oldenburghs Court to complaine of the violencccce<br />
offered by the danes, and to implore his defence and protection, and the<br />
said Captaine after his admission to the dukes presence, retourned and<br />
told this deponent and others that staid without, that hee could get noe<br />
aide or redresse from the said duke, and therefore hee resolved to blow<br />
up the said vessells rather than that they should be taken by the dames<br />
which accordingly was effected as aforesaid. And after the premisses<br />
this deponent going for Amsterdam to come that way home, there came<br />
a small danish man of warr aboard the Holland vessell wherein this deponent<br />
had imbarked himselfe for the said passage, and tooke this deponent out and<br />
carried him prisoner to Gluckstadt, where hee was close up in<br />
prison and kept prisoner therein [XXXXX] for the space of eighteene<br />
weekes. And further hee deposeth not, saving three others of the said<br />
English were alsoe carried prisoners by the danes to Gluckstadt and all three<br />
imprisoned in irons in the same prison wherein this deponent was kept.
To the 9th hee saith that if the sais vesells had not bin blowne up, the said<br />
danish Generall would undoubtedly have seized and taken them, and<br />
otherwise hee referrefth himselfe to his foregoing deposition.
To the 10th hee saith the said vessells, tackle, apparell, guns and<br />
appurtenances and provisions as aforesaid were worth at the said time<br />
of blowing up the summe of a thousand pounds sterling in his estimation,<br />
And saith there were the time aforesaid sixtie eight men or thereabouts<br />
belonging to the said two English vessells, And otherwise hee referreth<br />
himselfe to his foregoing deposition.
To the last hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and cannot<br />
otherwise depose.
Christo: Wallis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Peter Nantes''' of Wapping Mariner aged twenty eight yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne as in the Acts of Court and examined upon<br />
certayne Interrogatories saith as followeth videlicet
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the shipp ''Indeavour'' whereof the<br />
Interrogated/ur'' whereof the<br />
Interrogated/ +
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